Voice Your Support for a Free-Flowing Eel River
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has opened a comment period for PG&E’s License Surrender Application (LSA). This is an important step in the process of removing the Eel River dams and restoring the Eel River, and a rare opportunity for you to speak directly to FERC and share your concerns!
Please join us in speaking up for a restored Eel River and the need for dam removal to happen as soon as possible. Consider including the following points in your comment:
You don’t need to be a river expert to submit a comment; no matter your level of knowledge, FERC needs to hear from all of us! However, if you do have particular expertise or interest in a specific area, you may be able to provide comments that FERC won’t get elsewhere. The more specific, factual material in the record, the better. Issues that you may wish to consider include:
Please join us in speaking up for a restored Eel River and the need for dam removal to happen as soon as possible. Consider including the following points in your comment:
- PG&E is removing the Eel River dams because they no longer generate electricity and have been uneconomical for several years.
- Removing these dams is in the public interest and is the best outcome for Eel River communities and PG&E ratepayers.
- The dams need to be removed as soon as possible to reduce costs to PG&E ratepayers, mitigate safety and maintenance issues, and restore the Eel River ecosystem.
- Removal of these dams is critical for the recovery of salmon runs in the Eel River. A healthy Eel River fishery is important for Tribal, commercial, and recreational anglers.
- The non-project use portion of the application is broadly supported by local water managers as a compromise that resolves longstanding regional tensions over water.
You don’t need to be a river expert to submit a comment; no matter your level of knowledge, FERC needs to hear from all of us! However, if you do have particular expertise or interest in a specific area, you may be able to provide comments that FERC won’t get elsewhere. The more specific, factual material in the record, the better. Issues that you may wish to consider include:
- Environmental benefits of dam removal, including habitat and water quality effects.
- Tribal treaty rights and cultural resources.
- Downstream community and recreational benefits.
Instructions for submitting a comment with FERC:
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Electronic comments:
1. Click the button above and follow on screen instructions 2. Check your email for your eComment link 3. Draft your comments in a Word or text file, so you can copy & paste them into the text box on FERC Online. 4. Search for docket number (P-77-332) and select the blue + symbol 5. Enter your comments in the text box, and select "Send Comment" |
Snail mail comments:
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street NE, Room 1A Washington DC, 20426 |
Help Save Spring Chinook Salmon
Spring Chinook Salmon are a Northwest treasure. We must do everything possible to save them. One of the most important things we can do right now is to call for Endangered Species Act protections for all imperiled Pacific Northwest populations of spring-run Chinook salmon, including those of the Washington Coast, the Oregon Coast, the Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast, and the Upper Klamath-Trinity River system.
Please write the following officials of the National Marine Fisheries Service to call for Endangered Species Act protections for all imperiled populations of spring-run Chinook salmon:
Please write the following officials of the National Marine Fisheries Service to call for Endangered Species Act protections for all imperiled populations of spring-run Chinook salmon:
Urge your Senators & Representatives to uphold treaty rights and protect the Salish Sea and Columbia-Snake River Basin salmon and orcas from extinction.
Nearly 170 years ago the United States government signed treaties with Northwest Native Tribes, guaranteeing these sovereign Nations the right to fish for salmon at their usual and accustomed fishing grounds. By pushing salmon to the brink of extinction, we have not lived up to the promises of those treaties.
Urge your policymakers to recommit to upholding treaty rights and support tribal leadership in developing comprehensive solutions in the Salish Sea and the Columbia-Snake River Basin to protect salmon and orcas from extinction.
Urge your policymakers to recommit to upholding treaty rights and support tribal leadership in developing comprehensive solutions in the Salish Sea and the Columbia-Snake River Basin to protect salmon and orcas from extinction.
